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In 1987, according to the Library of Congress Country Studies, the Air Defence Command, within the Army Command, but also composed of Air Force personnel, numbered approximately 60, 000.

In 1987 units included twenty air defence brigades ( with approximately ninety-five SAM batteries ) and two air defence regiments.

The Air Defence Command had command access to interceptor aircraft and radar facilities.

Air defences included SA-5 long-range SAM batteries around Damascus and Aleppo, with additional SA-6 and SA-8 mobile SAM units deployed along Syria's side of the Lebanese border and in eastern Lebanon.